Fremlin, Celia

Dangerous Thoughts

Clare Wakefield is more dismayed than elated when she learns of her husband’s escape from Middle Eastern kidnappers. Edwin, a journalist, is a very difficult man, and home life had been so much more relaxed without him.

Dismay is to turn to fear, though, when Clare begins to suspect that Edwin has made up the whole kidnapping story for the sake of publicity. With the return of his ‘fellow hostages’ and the possible threat of exposure and public humiliation, Clare becomes slowly obsessed with a horrifying idea: her unstable husband is contemplating murder…